News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

NJ. P. Richardson, of South Deer
field, Mass, is canvassing this, vi
cinity in the interest of the Neae Eng
land Farmer.
Bert. Stewart and wife, who have
been on the Bell farm in Eden for til,
past year, are to return here and will
live on the home place.
DR.. Royce closes his office at thi:
place Thursday night of this week
which will be the last opportunity fol
seeing him at this place.
Miss Hattie Thompson returned tc
Lyndon on Saturday, where she com
mences her fourteenth term as teach
es in the academy at that place.
The No-Names of this place and
the Clippers of Danville will "play
ball" at the Fair Ground on Friday af.
ternoon at 1.3O. Admission Is cents.
E. B. Merriam & Sons have pur-
chased the Boynton clothing business
and are already receiving new goods.
Look out for their advertisement next
week.
Prof. Stone, and Miss Delano who
is to have charge of the grammar de-
partment at the Academy, came to
town on Saturday ready to engage in
their work.
E. j. Scott, of Los Angeles, CAL,
Capt. Porter Crane, wife and daugh-
ter, of Concord, N. H., and Mrs. G..
A. Sawyer, of Boston, are the guests
of Edison Pinney.
Those interested in the Reading
Club are invited to meet with the
Misses Fitch Monday evening, Sept.
9TH. Come and help make the Read
ing Club a success.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Congregational society is to be held
on Thursday evening, in connection
with the regular prayer meeting, and
communion services will be held next
Sunday.
Miss Williams, late preceptress at
the Academy, was in town Saturday.
She goes to Mortified, where she
has the position filled for several
years by Miss Chase, who succeeds
Miss Williams here.
All persons having rosters of the
members of companies or regiments
who were present at the reunion, will
confer favor by sending copies of
the same to D. j. Stafford, Adj. of
the association, Morrisville, Vt.
Mrs. NJ. B. Newton, Preceptress of
the CASTELAR, school in Omaha, who
has been spending a few weeks in
company with her mother, Mrs. Allis,
and daughter, at G.. W. Fitch's, has
returned to resume her duties in
Omaha.
Josiah Wood, who has been persu-
ing his theological studies at And
over during the past year, has been
stopping with his friends here for
few days. He soon goes to Baraboo,
Wis, thrifty town of five thousand
Inhabitants where he expects to To-
cate.
Lost, on the Fair Ground, during
the sham fight, a spur. Any person
who may have found the same will do
a great favor TO the owner by leaving
it with d. J. Stafford. 1t was cap
tured by the owner from a Captain of
a North Carolina cavalry regiment
during the war.
The school year at our Academy
begins with the opening of the fall
term to-day "Wednesday. The sew
eral teachers are all on hand ready TO
assume their duties, the prospects are
good for large attendance, and all
interested look forward to prosper
Gus and profitable year.
cara Griswold's boy Henry met
with a painful accident on Saturday
at "Putsville," near Montpelier. He
was standing near the mill when a
workman threw stick of timber from
the third story window that fell upon
him, breaking his leg in two places
and injuring the ankle badly. 1t was
certainly narrow escape for the boy,
and an objectionable piece of care
lesuess on the part of the man who
threw out the timber.
The Ladies' Industrial Society of
the Congregational church, who, as
is well known, assumed some time
since, the debt incurred in buying the
parsonage, find themselves a little
short of the necessary amount to meet
their payment now due. Hoping to
realize enough to make up the balance,
they announce an entertainment to be
held at the Town Hall on Friday eve
ming of this week. An attractive pro-
gramme, consisting, in part, Of read
ings and vocal and instrumental mu-
sic, is being prepared, and the ladies
hope for a good attendance. Admis-
sion 10 cents.
1t is hoped that the towns in the
county will be prepared to participate
in the "tug of war" contest at the
coming fair. Each town should have
a team consisting of ten men. The
society will pay the winning team $40
and the End best $40. The Hyde
Park centennial flag will also be pulled
for, and the team winning it will also
receive $40. Johnson now holds the
flag and has already been challenged
by Eden and Hyde Park and accepted.
The grand contest between the differ
ent towns will take place on the sec
ond day of the fair, and the contest
for the flag on the last day. Will not
the strong and heavy men in each
town make the necessary preparations
at once and be ready for action? The
whole affair, including all the details,
will be under the charge of compe-
tent committee. Towns intending to
enter the contest should give notice to
A. A. Niles, Sec, on or before Sep
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